SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
CONDITION OF WORKERS TN u.s. coal industry:. AY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. WASHINGTON, March _ 8. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America made charges of a grave nature against th • operating end o.f the bitnmonous coal industry of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. During a speech occupying four hours, he placed much of the blame for the unemployment, pauperism and encouragement of radicalism upon Mr A. W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treas ury) and Mr Rockefeller, the genera! attorney and president of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. He stated that they and others were responsible for the coal companies’ unsur-pation of the powers of the Government and the Federal Court’s issuance of “unfair” injunctions against mine unions and the collapse of the Jacksonville agreement.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 March 1928, Page 5
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